Sitting up perfectly straight is hard on the intervertebral discs too. It's better to lean back and rest your back on the backrest so that you don't get 100% of the downward force squishing your discs all day long.

It's been just what I wanted so far. Challenging to set up properly, but now I've got a low-impact weight loss mechanism built into my normal work day. From today before lunch it showed 500 calories, 155 from fat, and at the end of the work day I can either go outside and get some variety or flip down the work laptop screen and watch a movie on the big screen in the back.

I've had a standup desk for a year. Curious side effect is I don't usually sit anymore unless you're supposed to; eating, watching TV, etc. Can't sit in a waiting room, waiting for a table at a restaurant, I stand rather than sit at a bar. It's strange but I don't feel the need to sit unless I am actually tired.

I rank them up there with the ones that make me feel guilty for not taking a sick day when I have the sniffles, that I should be working from home and the ones that say I'm a loser for not "doing what I love"

Well you know what chuckles? Yeah, it effin sucks that sitting at a desk is killing me, but my boss (the same one that gets pissed when I take a rare sick day) won't let me do yoga or sit on a beach ball.

He sure as hell won't spend money to order a stand up desk. Hell, he'll biatch for days if I try to work from home remotely.

What he does do however, is sign my paycheck which buys food for my family and puts a roof on their head. Something that I don't have the privilege to do on my own while "doing what I love" sitting on a beach ball doing yoga.

It's nice what some people get to worry about...

/for those of you privileged enough to be able to do all those things, I salute you//but I wish those articles would be targeted more towards the "job creators" that set the rules for most workplaces.

mdeesnuts:I've had a standup desk for a year. Curious side effect is I don't usually sit anymore unless you're supposed to; eating, watching TV, etc. Can't sit in a waiting room, waiting for a table at a restaurant, I stand rather than sit at a bar. It's strange but I don't feel the need to sit unless I am actually tired.

I've tried a stand up desk, got it was horrible on my feet and strangely my hips. If I'm going to be on my feet for hours at a time, I want to be doing a fair amount of walking, which is surprisingly easier on my system that standing in place for long periods.

mdeesnuts:syrynxx: I just started working at home from an upright treadmill desk specifically because of all these risks and problems.

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I don't have the cable management all pretty yet.

That's awesome. Have you had any close calls with a face plant? I always imagined I would see something and forget to walk for a split second and WHAM!

A couple of times I forget to keep walking and then that OK Go! video pops through my head. But it's going pretty slowly so no faceplants yet. Treadmill is a Proform Power 995 I got for a steal off eBay in case anyone is curious.

ShawnDoc:I've tried a stand up desk, got it was horrible on my feet and strangely my hips. If I'm going to be on my feet for hours at a time, I want to be doing a fair amount of walking, which is surprisingly easier on my system that standing in place for long periods.

My feet hurt after a couple of weeks, too. So I got a stool to prop on. Now I just shuffle a lot and the stool stays under the desk.

FWIW before modifying the cube, I put my monitor on some big books and tilted it up. Then the kb/mouse on a box bringing them to ~elbow level. It took 30 seconds to transform back and forth.

I'm lucky in a way, I sit at a desk but I have a little stool when needed to elevate my feet. I also have easy excuses to get up and walk around, sometimes I carry a clipboard for appearances but mainly I'm stretching my legs. I've gained weight though so I need to work on that.